Texas Tech-Accelerated BSN Spring 2020

[kantwine]

I haven't seen a thread for those of us applying May 1st to the January 2020 cohort. I'm wondering how heavily they weigh the TEAS. Also, I have heard as long as you meet all criteria they typically give you an interview. Has anyone else heard this? I really like how they take a holistic approach to grant admissions. I'm wanting to apply to UTA but I feel like the main way you get extra points is by attending school there which I did not do! We'll see!

[jillhill81]

I think it would be by Friday if we're lucky, but she left it open to not even be this week. This program teaches patience lol

[sophiemicaela, RN]

On 9/16/2019 at 6:27 PM, bjensen4 said:

So I am curious as I saw there is a current cohort student that has been great at replying to our many questions and attempting to keep our panic at bay. Did you feel like the number of student interviewed was the amount accepted or is each step of the process a narrowing of the pool of those actually accepted that applied. The reason I ask is I know they mentioned in the webinar that over 500 applied and of that only like 160 were picked for interviews? If I recall correctly. I only ask because by applying to this program I very much put all of my eggs in one basket. I am a veteran, I unfortunately have used most of my GI Bill up already taking pre-requisites. How is that possible you might ask? Well my husband is active duty and so naturally we have moved during my schooling when I started I was taking pre-reqs for schools in Ohio and then I had to completely switch and do pre-reqs for Texas. In doing so most of my GI Bill is used up but thankfully as I was born in Texas I am eligible for the Hazlewood Act which is tuition paid by the state to attend State Universities. This obviously narrows my school choices significantly as I can only go to State schools and since we are in San Antonio that means SAC(which is an ADN program and I already have an Associates degree), UTSA-HSC(massively competitive), UIW(private college not eligible for Hazlewood). TTU VBSN is kind of my golden ticket, its the perfect program to fit my needs and if I dont get in I really have to start reconsidering what I am going to do.

SOOOO, how many people are in the current cohort was it significantly less people than were interviewed? I mostly asked this as I was discussing the interview process and questions asked with a co-worker and they brought up the very good point of perhaps they only interview to ensure that you really want to be in the program?

Thoughts?

Also I have sent my blue card and got no reply and I sent a separate email with a question to Cindy and didnt recieve a reply.(its been over a month) Would yall suggest I call or send another e-mail? I dont want to bug them if they are readying acceptance letters.

Hi!

1) I feel like based on the forum from last year, the majority of students that received interviews were offered admission. It all seemed like a blur, but I honestly only remember maybe 3-4 people posting about not being offered a position. If you feel that your interview was strong, you probably have a really good shot of getting in! I have only personally known 1 student who wasn't offered admission on her first application and then got in the 2nd year she applied. The reason she wasn't offered a spot on the 1st go around is because during her interview, they asked her about her support system and she cried during this portion since her fiance's father had just been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. So they deferred her enrollment so that she could be present with her family and didn't have the added weight of the program on top of everything. They really want to offer admission to students who will be able to tough out the 11 grueling months and want to retain 100% of the students.

2) Austin's cohort started with 30 students; we have 28 now! Of those 28 students, we have 4 VBSN students who have all remained in the program.

I hope this was helpful, hang in there guys!

[amr151030]

If 160 were interviewed, that’s about 23 students per site which seems to be pretty okay odds. I’m hopeful that most of us have spots but it would still be good to know for sure! Lol

[atxmitch]

From the info webinar... # of students per city:

40 Austin

30 SA Lubbock Abilene Dallas

15 Amarillo Odessa

[amr151030]

That’s a lot! May be the issue of filling up the less popular cohorts then.

[ashsarver]

Has anybody taken a poll of how many people are on this forum and how many are applying to each cohort? I’m sure it will give us 0 additional info but could at least give us something to do while we wait. ?

[ShanW]

I applied for the Dallas cohort.

I agree at least it’ll keep us distracted while we wait!

[Yehui Yang]

I was told on the day of my interview, Abilene has current about 20 students.

[Jessica Corona]

I applied to Dallas as my first choice and Abilene as my second!

I would also like to know how many of us applied to each location lol

[ashsarver]

Oh, and I applied to Austin.

[amr151030]

I applied for Dallas!

[jillhill81]

Dallas!